From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2008-09-05T18:13:01+09:00
Subject: Re: method chaining via symbols

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2008/9/5 snacktime <snacktime@gmail.com>

> If this is too strange just say so.  Tonight I was working with a
> rails helper method which accepts several symbols as arguments which
> get turned into method calls.  Normally it's used on activerecord
> objects, but I wanted to make it work on an array of hashes instead.
> That particular approach wouldn't work without being able to call
> values.first, since some of the hash values were arrays themselves,
> but the rails helper expected a single array.
>
> So anyways I was thinking how it would work if you could do something like
> this:
>
>  send(:method1:method2:method3)
>
> Arguments would be passed like normal, and the argument to a chained
> method would be the result of the last method call.
>
> Not sure I even like the idea, just curious if it's ever been discussed
> before?
>
> Chris



Not sure if these are exactly what you're talking about, but these might
provide some inspiration:

http://jicksta.com/posts/the-methodphitamine
http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/09/ruby-recording-method-calls-and.html

Both techniques allow you store store chains of method calls and replay them
later on some object.

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